Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
I tell you, this life doesn’t …
I tell you, this life doesn’t simply come with its share of unpredictability; surprise is its most conspicuous feature.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
If you are careful, if you …
If you are careful, if you use good ingredients, and you don’t take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
– from The World According to Garp book by John Irving
I don’t like New York. It’s …
I don’t like New York. It’s a city full of second-place winners.
– from City of Girls book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes, even when you start with …
Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
You should know that the only …
You should know that the only safe place on the planet is your grave. Nothing happens there. There is no safety in life itself.
– from Death; An Inside Story book by Sadhguru
In business, invention is often said …
In business, invention is often said to be overrated as compared with execution. Perhaps the best proof of this idea yet to be offered by the twenty-first century is the success of Facebook, a business with an exceedingly low ratio of invention to success. There is no lightbulb, or telephone, let alone a truly ingenious algorithm in the company’s history. And yet no firm, save Google, has harvested as much attention from the Internet, or commercialized it as effectively.
– from The Attention Merchants book by Tim Wu
You are what you consume, and …
You are what you consume, and that applies just as much to information as to nutrition.
– from Building a Second Brain book by Tiago Forte
Real shrewdness means not letting any …
Real shrewdness means not letting any shrewdness show. It’s not like in the movies. The truly astute don’t sit in the shadows all day striking a pose. They don’t show off that they’re using their brains. They look all carefree and innocent. Some of them are tacky and mawkish, others careless and unserious. What’s critical is not to let others think you’re a person of interest. Let them look down on you or dismiss you and they won’t feel you’re an obstacle. You’re just a broom in the corner. The pinnacle of this is to make them not notice you at all, as if you don’t exist until the moment right before they die at your hands.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
I’ve always known, on a purely …
I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing – the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.
– from Dark Matter book by Blake Crouch